THE SLEEPING BEAUTY SERIES

SLEEPING BEAUTY II

Grief, Bereavement and The Family in Memorial Photography; American and European Traditions

$85

186 Pages, Hardcover12.5 x 9.25 inches2002

This volume expands the history of early postmortem and memorial photography, and continues the exploration of the subject to the present day. Family bonds, grief and mourning, the differences between American and European postmortem photography, and the artistry of posthumous mourning photographs are examined using 140 never before seen images from the Burns Archive.

Stanley B. Burns, MDISBN: 0-9612958-3-X

136 Pages, Hardcover6.75 x 6 inches2011

Stanley B. Burns, MDISBN: 978-1-936002-04-7

Used as a reference for bereavement organizations, photographers, hospital staff, and parents engaged in renewing the practice of memorial photography, this compilation of over 125 post-mortem photographs documents images from photography's earliest era (1840s) up to the present. The historic images are classic representations of American and European memorial cultural traditions. The modern photographs document contemporary practices of bereavement and memorialization.

SLEEPING BEAUTY III

Memorial Photography, The Children

$36

SLEEPING BEAUTY

Memorial Photography in America

First Printing

$800

132 Pages, Hardcover12.5 x 9.25 inches1990

Stanley B. Burns, MDISBN: 0-942642-32-5OUT OF PRINT

The first in the 3-book series of memorial images, Sleeping Beauty is coveted for having played a large role in the rediscovery of the normalcy of postmortem photography, the practice of photographing the recently deceased, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. All images are from the Burns Archive.

132 Pages, Hardcover12.5 x 9.25 inches1990

Stanley B. Burns, MDISBN: 0-942642-32-5OUT OF PRINT

The first in the 3-book series of memorial images, Sleeping Beauty is coveted for having played a large role in the rediscovery of the normalcy of postmortem photography, the practice of photographing the recently deceased, in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. All images are from the Burns Archive.

SLEEPING BEAUTY

Memorial Photography in America

Second Printing

$600

SHOOTING SOLDIERS

Civil War Medical Photography By R.B.Bontecou

$40

168 Pages, Hardcover6.75 x 6 inches2011

The photographs in this book were taken by photographer and surgeon Reed B. Bontecou and reveal a new chapter in Civil War history. These beautifully posed photographs were taken as documentation of injuries suffered during the conflict. The faces of these wounded men stare back at us through time. These powerful images were featured in the exhibition Photography and the American Civil War at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

208 Pages; Hardcover6.75 x 6 inches2012

With over 250 daguerreotypes presented in full-color reproductions, Mirror, Mirror illustrates the depth and beauty of the daguerreotype medium; photographs produced on silver. Showcasing a wide range of American, British and French images, their clear distinctions are revealed, making this book an excellent guide for novice collectors as well as a resource for connoisseurs and curators.

MIRROR MIRROR

The Burns Collection Daguerreotypes

$50

NEWS ART

The Manipulated Photographs from The Burns Archive

$50

128 Pages, Hardcover11 x 9 inches2008

Stanley B. Burns, MDISBN: 978-1-576874-64-6

This is the first work to document the manipulation of photography in journalism to achieve accurate copy or story emphasis in newspapers. These images from 1900–1960 illustrate photographic enhancement before computers—from simple outlining or airbrushing to complete over-painting. Subjects include crime scenes, world events, social and business personalities, and other assorted news stories.

80 Pages, Hardcover13 x 10.5 inches2006

Stanley B. Burns, MD with Elizabeth BurnsISBN: 978-1-576873366

This book documents the intimate life and culture of the nineteenth-century geisha. It portrays these artists in a cultural reality created by staged studio photography, private scenes, and rare outdoor images. The geisha is pictured performing her daily rituals and various arts—bathing, dressing, hair styling, dining, dancing, and playing instruments. Images of courtesans and other working women are presented alongside the geisha to show all sides of this enchanting aspect of Japanese culture. Completing the story are insightful essays on the history of nineteenth-century Japanese photography, the social history of the geisha, and the history of the opening of Japan.

GEISHA

A Photographic History

$50

DEADLY INTENT

Crime and Punishment- Photographs from The Burns Archive

$160

DEADLY INTENT: Crime and Punishment- Photographs from The Burns Archive

252 Pages, Hardcover11.6 x 10.2 inches2008

Stanley B. Burns, MDISBN: 978-1-576874-63-9

This book is divided into four sections, Crime Scenes, Police Action, Punishment and Executions. The compilation of crime scenes gives readers a forensic view, offering entire series of images used by detectives and criminologists from 1890 to 1950. Photographs reveal the evolving standards of the American criminal justice system, from water torture at Sing Sing prison, whipping posts, penitentiary life, and the notorious deadly work camps of the South, to executions: hanging, firing squads, and the electric chair.

271 Pages, Hardcover12.4 x 10.4 inches1993

Matthew NaythonsISBN: 978-1-9764495-5-2OUT OF PRINT

This photographic history of medicine during wartime documents the development of military medicine from classical to modern times. With over 230 photographs from around the world, photographers both famous and unknown are represented. Highly recommended for historical and photographic collections as well as medical libraries.

FACE OF MERCY

A Photographic History of Medicine at War

$150

FORGOTTEN MARRIAGE

The Painted Tintype & The Decorative Frame, 1860-1910, A Lost Chapter in American Portraiture

A thorough survey of the American portrait tradition, folk art and photography, the tintype, hand-colored photography, copy prints and enlargements, and the decorative frame. Documents the spread and democratization of painted portraits. Includes information on collecting, preserving, and evaluating photographic frames, as well as a frame identification guide.

A thorough survey of the American portrait tradition, folk art and photography, the tintype, hand-colored photography, copy prints and enlargements, and the decorative frame. Documents the spread and democratization of painted portraits. Includes information on collecting, preserving, and evaluating photographic frames, as well as a frame identification guide.

FORGOTTEN MARRIAGE

The Painted Tintype & The Decorative Frame, 1860-1910, A Lost Chapter in American Portraiture

This collection of 127 vintage medical photographs from 1843 to 1939 reveals the dark days of medicine before antiseptic procedures were implemented and offers narrative explanations of the photographs and their cultural significance. Includes medical curiosities, mortuary photographs, images of amputations, surgical procedures, disfigurement, and a wide assortment of congenital and acquired diseases. The title “A Morning's Work" is the title of R.B. Bontecou’s photograph of a pile of amputated limbs taken during the Civil War.

Edited by and with an introduction by artist Joel-Peter Witkin, this book contains forty-four images, each of a rare medical subject from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth century. Examples include Dissected Head in Soup Plate, Young Woman with Elephantiasis from Scarlet Fever, Hospital Gangrene, and Girl with Large Foot Jumping Rope.

MASTERPIECES OF MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY

Selections from The Burns Archive

$400

SEEING INSANITY

$40

64 Pages, Hardcover11.5 x 8.75 inches2007

Stanley B. Burns, MDISBN: 0-9764495-5-2

Seeing Insanityis part of a four-volume photographic history on mental and mood disorders. It is a catalogue for an exhibition of extraordinary photographs of female mental patients from Uruguay’s Manicomio Nacional: Departamento de Mujeres (National Madhouse). Also in this volume are the works of pioneer psychiatric photographer Mathew Brady, and neuropsychiatrists Hugh Welch Diamond, Dietrich Georg Keiser, James Crichton-Browne, and Duchenne de Boulogne. Some of the earliest psychiatric publications with patient photographs are shown with images from The Mind Unveiled, as well as the publications of neuropsychiatrists Theodor Ziehen, Emil Kraepelin, Thomas Stretch Dowse, and others. The photographs of Uruguayan women, the main focus of this volume, offer the modern reader insight into the physiognomy of psychotic patients, and provide visual evidence as to why the photograph was such an article of faith and evidence for nineteenth century practitioners. Admission and discharge photographs further our appreciation of the efforts of our predecessors to help and heal their patients, and provide graphic evidence of the accomplishments of these practitioners.

This is the first photographic atlas to document the visual history of podiatry. The photographs, taken during the establishment of the modern specialty, show the patients that nineteenth and twentieth century foot care specialists encountered. While many of the diseases depicted have now been conquered, the series presents the conditions foot care specialists of the time would routinely have encountered: corns, calluses, foot deformities, infections, cutaneous diseases and diseases caused by ill-fitting footwear. The photographs begin during the Civil War, when the need for foot soldiers focused practitioners’ attention on the feet.

PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF EARLY PODIATRY

Selections from The Burns Archive

$40

FOUR-VOLUME MEDICAL SPECIALTY SERIES

Each title in the Medical Specialty Series presents a particular branch of medicine, tracing its history and development in a four-volume hardcover book series, complete with slipcase. Printed in limited, numbered quantities.

This series a photographic history of nephrology, the branch of medicine that deals with the physiology and diseases of the kidneys. The four volumes include: Pioneers and Educators, Disease and Trauma, Radiology and Surgery, Science and Therapy.

PATIENTS AND PROMISE: A Photographic History of Mental & Mood Disorders

4 Volumes in Slipcase256 Pages, Hardcover11.5 x 8.75 inches2006

Stanley B. Burns, MDISBN: 0-9764495-1-X

This series presents a photographic history of mental and mood disorders. The four volumes include: Hospital Care, Seeing Insanity, Biological Era, and Modern Therapies.

PATIENTS & PROMISE

A Photographic History of Mental And Mood Disorders

$200

OPHTHALMOLOGY

A Photographic History 1845-1945

$200

OPHTHALMOLOGY: A Photographic History 1845-1945

4 Volumes in Slipcase256 Pages, Hardcover11.5 x 8.75 inches2009

Stanley B. Burns, MDISBN: 978-1-936002-02-3

This series presents a photographic history of ophthalmology, the branch of medicine concerned with the study and treatment of disorders and diseases of the eye. The four volume include: Instruments & Technology, Disease & Pathology, Surgery & Therapy

4 Volumes in Slipcase256 Pages, Hardcover11.5 x 8.75 inches2005

Stanley B. Burns, MDISBN: 0-9748688-8-4

This series presents a photographic history of dermatology, the branch of medicine concerned with the diagnosis and treatment of skin disorders. The four volumes include: The Face, The Back, The Extremities, and The Torso. Limited to 550 copies.

SKIN PICTURES

Masterpiece Photographs of Nineteenth Century Dermatology

$200

ONCOLOGY

Tumors & Treatment A Photogaphic History

$150

4 Volumes in Slipcase256 Pages, Hardcover11.5 x 8.75 inches2004

Stanley B. Burns, MDISBN: 978-0974868806

This series presents a photographic history of oncology, the branch of medicine that deals with the study and treatment of tumors. The four volumes include: The Anesthesia Era 1845-1875, The Antiseptic Era 1876-1900, The X-Ray Era 1901-1915, and The Radium Era 1916-1945.

4 Volumes in Slipcase256 Pages, Hardcover11.5 x 8.75 inches2003

Stanley B. Burns, MDISBN: 0-9612958-4-8

This series presents a photographic history of respiratory disease. The four volumes include: The Pioneer Era 1845-1870, The Antiseptic Era 1871-1895, The X-Ray Era 1896-1920, and The Serology Era 1921-1945.

RESPIRATORY DISEASE

A Photographic History 1845-1945

$125

AMERICAN MEDICAL PUBLICATION WITH PHOTOGRAPHS

(MONOGRAPH)

$25

New York State Journal of Medicine41 Pages, 52 Photographs8.75 x 11 inches, Pamphlet1983

This publication gives a general background history of nineteenth century pre- and post-photographic illustration methods, as they apply to medical publications. It also includes a presentation of American medical publications with illustrations that were taken and produced with actual photographs.

New York State Journal of Medicine27 Pages, 42 Photographs8.75 x 11 inches, Pamphlet1980

This publication presents a systematic study and overview of Civil War medical photography, including collodion wet-plate process photographs, in particular the paper albumen print and the tintype, as well as daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, and carte de visites.

CIVIL WAR MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY

(MONOGRAPH)

$25

ROMANCING THE BUG

Photographs by Alice Lease Dana

$20

136 Pages, Hardcover6 x 6 inches2011

Foreword by Stanley B. Burns, MDISBN: 978-1-936002-07-8

Alice Dana's flower and insect photographs are fresh and colorful images of one of the most basic natural processes for the maintenance of life on earth. Her decades-long interest in gardening and photography led her to capture the beauty and poetry of flowers and the insects that inhabit them.

This book contains reprints of articles written by Dr. Burns for the New York State Journal of Medicine on the history of early medical photography. This compilation of information and photographs offers a better understanding of the use of photography by physicians and also greater insight into nineteenth century practitioners, their patients, and their practices. 150 photographic images are reproduced along with sixteen illustrations taken from photographs.

EARLY MEDICAL PHOTOGRAPHY IN AMERICA1839-1883

$125

UNAVAILABLE BOOKS

1991

47 Pages, Paperback10.75 x 8.5 Inches

ISBN 2-9700002-0-2

Stanley B. Burns, MDJacques Gasser

1994

132 Pages, Hardcover11.5 x 8.75 Inches

ISBN 0-944092-28-4

Joel-Peter Witkin, et al

Harms Way brings together four unusual collections. Edited and with an introduction by artist Joel-Peter Witkin, the book includes turn of the century crime scene photographs, nineteenth century asylum inmate portraits with calligraphic annotations detailing the patients' diagnoses, nineteenth century medical photographs from the Burns Archive, and a selection of images from the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research. The ability of the photograph to show us our powerlessness in the face of madness, lust, disease, and death, survives in these brittle and arresting images.

1998

638 Pages, Hardcover12 x 9 Inches

Ira Rutkow, MD

Photo historian Dr. Stanley B. Burns provided photographs and captions to accompany the text written by Ira Rutkow. This volume is a masterful textual and pictorial history of the evolution of American surgery. These physicians and historians draw on their experience to provide an enlightening account of the development of surgery in the context of American social, economic, and political history. Interspersed with the narrative is an extraordinary collection of medical photographs from the Burns Archive, many of which have never before been published. The first section chronicles the history of American surgery from Native American practices and colonial times to the present. Particular attention is given to the professionalization and specialization of surgery, as well as to the influence of wars, technological advances, and other pivotal events on the profession. The second section details the history of specific surgical specialties. More than 1,000 biographical accounts of famous surgeons are deftly woven into the narrative.

ISBN 0-944092-28-4

194 Pages, Hardcover11.5 x 8.75 Inches

1990

R. Glenner, DDS& A. Davis, PhD

ISBN 0-929521-05-6

This pictorial book presents a social, historical account of American dentists from their roots in the colonial period to the later 20th century. Includes how dentists learned their craft and improvised in periods of distress, when lacking instruments and equipment.